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Installation

If you purchased floating licenses, you must install the license server first. Please skip ahead to the floating license installation section before installing RenderMan for Maya.

Double-click on the Maya version-appropriate RenderMan for Maya .msi file to invoke the installer. The installer will take you through the installation process step-by-step.

By default, the software is installed in C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderManForMayaversion-2.0. Maya finds the plugin there via the following environment variable, set by the installer:

MAYA_MODULE_PATH

C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderManForMayaversion-2.0\etc

Licensing

As part of the installation process, a licensing application will be invoked. It will ask you for an “Entitlement Serial Number”, and your Forum login and password. Enter the information in the appropriate fields (if you use a proxy server, your proxy information should be added as hose:port, e.g. foo.mydomain.com:8080) and click on the Get License button. The application will contact Pixar's servers and download your license to the etc subdirectory of your RenderMan for Maya installation. Once it is done, quit the licensing application and the installer will run to completion. Please note, your initial license will be timed to expire in approximately 30 days. At that time you can run the LicenseApp program again to get your permanent license.

And you're all set.

Additional Licensing Information

• Updating a License

  Obtaining a new or updated license is simply a matter of running LicenseApp by double-clicking on it in the etc subdirectory of your RenderMan for Maya installation. By default, this location is:

  	C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderManForMayaX.Y-2.0\etc
  

  The program will contact Pixar and download your license to the correct location.

• Floating Licenses

  Floating licenses are keyed to a specific machine designated as your license server. If you have purchased floating licenses, you must download the License Server software from the Pixar downloads section. Note, this is a download separate from the RenderMan for Maya download via the online store. The License Server download package for Windows is Pixar_License-la_5.0.msi.

  1. Double-click on the Pixar_License-la_5.0.msi file to invoke the installer. This must be done on the machine that you intend to use as your license server. The installer will take you through the installation process, step-by-step.
  2. Near the end of the installation, the licensing application, LicenseApp, will be invoked. It will ask you for an “Entitlement Serial Number”, and your Forum login and password. Enter the information in the appropriate fields (if you use a proxy server, your proxy information should be added as hose:port, e.g. foo.mydomain.com:8080) and click on the Get License button.
  3. The application will contact Pixar's servers and download your license to the appropriate location. Once that is finished, quit LicenseApp and the license server installer will run to completion.

  Please note, your initial license will be timed to expire in approximately 30 days. At that time you can run the LicenseApp program again to get your permanent license.

  Now, when you install the RenderMan for Maya software on your artists' machines, you will follow the same steps as for a regular installation, including entering the “Entitlement Serial Number” and your Forum login and password when LicenseApp asks for them. The license file that is downloaded will point to the machine where you installed the license server, automatically.

  Once the RenderMan for Maya installation is completed, you will need to start the license server. This can be done via the Windows Services panel (Start-> Control Panel-> Administrative Tools->Services).

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